Ep. 1069 - Leftists Push White Guilt On Thanksgiving
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As we head into December, we're going to start hearing more about the War on Christmas. But before the focus shifts in that direction, it's worth noticing the much more direct and intense war being waged on that we just celebrated, which is Thanksgiving.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, over the Thanksgiving holiday, leftists invited us to shamefully
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grovel and beg forgiveness for the alleged atrocities committed by our ancestors.
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Now the media wants us to learn about a triple-demic is what they're calling it.
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Protests break out against the communist regime in China, and a show about archaeology is
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a big hit on Netflix, but the media warns that it's dangerous.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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As we head into December, we're going to start hearing more about the war on Christmas.
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But before the focus shifts in that direction, it's worth noticing the much more direct and
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intense war being waged on the holiday that we just celebrated, which is Thanksgiving.
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The war on Thanksgiving has been raging for years now, as the cultural powers that be attempt
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to turn a time of gratitude and celebration into an occasion for guilt and recrimination.
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Now, we know that these forces seek to destroy all traditions passed to us by our ancestors,
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and this is the primary issue that they have with Christmas, too, with every holiday that
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they themselves didn't invent, is that it's a tradition passed to us by our ancestors, and so
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But Thanksgiving, like Columbus Day, is especially egregious in their eyes because it harkens back
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to the European conquest of North America, which is an historical event that these days
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is supposed to provoke nothing but grief and lamentation.
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In fact, for years, the left has tried to literally rebrand Thanksgiving as un-Thanksgiving,
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or as it's called in some quarters now, Thanksgiving is a national day of mourning in recognition of
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course of alleged atrocities carried out against indigenous people by white settlers.
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This was the message that the left tried to send again this past Thanksgiving, many taking
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the opportunity to post on social media with messages like this.
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This is from journalist Walter Brahman, who says,
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While giving thanks and celebrating the holiday, remember, it is a national day of mourning for
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Native Americans that marks generations of broken promises and oppression. It is important to
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recognize that legacy as we grapple with a resurgent fascist movement, solidarity forever. And then he
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continues, say it with me. The United States carried out a genocide against this continent's
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indigenous people, and it served as a blueprint for future generations. A writer named Simon Moya Smith
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agreed, posting, Today is the national day of mourning for indigenous peoples all across
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this land. We also call it un-Thanksgiving. On this day, we as natives celebrate our resiliency
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and that we are still here. The U.S. tried to kill every indigenous man, woman, and child,
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but we are still here. And there were also acts of protests around the country, like in Chicago,
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as New York Post reports, quote, For the second time in under two months,
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a statue dedicated to former President Abraham Lincoln was defaced in Chicago on Thanksgiving.
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A statue of a young Abraham Lincoln in Sen Park in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood was found covered
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in splotches of red paint, along with the words colonizer and land back. According to the Chicago
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Tribune, the statue also had Dakota 38 written on it in reference to the Dakota Sioux members who
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Lincoln ordered to be executed following the Dakota War of 1862. Well, it's a good thing that
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there aren't any injustices happening in the world today right now, which frees us up to
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protest injustices from 150 years ago. That is quite a nice luxury, I must say.
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But there may be even something to be thankful for. I don't know. Just not on Thanksgiving,
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as the holiday is simply too complicated now. It's complicated. This indeed has become the media
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favorite term to describe Thanksgiving, with many outlets bringing in Native American activists
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to talk about the emotional complexities surrounding what we all once thought was a
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simple and wholesome holiday. But it's not anymore, because it's just complicated. Watch.
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Thanksgiving originally celebrated a harvest feast shared by Native Americans and English
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colonists. But as Fox 43's Harry Lee explains, the holiday can bring out different emotions for
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indigenous people. For many Americans, Thanksgiving means gathering with family to eat a large meal
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together. For Native Americans, the holiday isn't so simple. A lot of people in the indigenous
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communities do want to look at this at the time of morning because they see, you know, just what we
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have lost. After Europeans colonized North America, many Native communities were decimated by
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disease, famine, and displacement. Frank Littlebear of the Plains Cree Nation explains, though,
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that the many tribes and families of indigenous communities now celebrate Thanksgiving in different
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ways. He points out fall was always a season of thanks. It actually started in October, a time of,
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you know, receiving the harvest of like the three sisters, the corn, bean, squash,
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deer, things like that, and really preparing for winter. So it was actually a time of celebration.
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As for the elementary school depictions of the first Thanksgiving, which often depict Puritan English
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and Wampanoag tribe members inaccurately dressed in Western Plains attire.
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I think, yeah, there's certain things that they could probably do better.
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Littlebear says it's still important to build a connection to Native American culture from a young
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age. It's a building process. It's not going to happen overnight.
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Build a connection to Native American culture. That's what Thanksgiving is about. Meanwhile,
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the ACLU tried the repetition technique, posting on Thanksgiving morning in all caps,
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you are on Native land. You are on Native land. You are on Native land. You are on Native land. You
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are on Native land. You are on Native land. You are on Native land. You are on Native land.
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Unfortunately, they only repeated the phrase 10 times. If they could have squeezed in that 11th time,
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I may have been convinced, but they only got to 10. Now, there are a few points here that I think
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are worth making. First, of course, the story about Thanksgiving that we tell our children or used to
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tell them is simplified, okay? That's because young children are only capable of understanding
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simple concepts. You give them the simple version first, and then over time, you build on it,
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adding layers of complexity. And in fact, the left agrees with this, which is why they haven't
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actually set out to give children a more complex or nuanced understanding of the European settlement
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of the new world. Instead, they've replaced one simplified story with a different but even more
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simplified story. It's just been simplified in the other direction. So the popular and simplified myth
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now, told not just to children but hammered into everybody's head, is a story of evil, barbaric white
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people who came here and just immediately carried out a genocide against peaceful Indians who never did a
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single thing to deserve or provoke any of the violence visited upon them. This is the story we're supposed
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to believe now. It is the new founding myth of America. You know, every nation has its founding myth,
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right? Usually the myths are designed to instill pride and patriotism and gratitude. And yes, they're not
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always 100% accurate. But people in other cultures and in other countries, they don't spend time
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debunking. Well, that's not exactly how it happened. They wouldn't have been dressed like that.
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That's not the point of the story. Okay? Getting the wardrobe details right isn't the point.
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A lot of times the point is, again, to instill pride, patriotism, and gratitude.
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But our new founding myth is designed instead to instill resentment and guilt and shame.
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The modern Western world is the only civilization in history that I'm aware of that lies to itself
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about its own history and founding in order to make itself seem worse.
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Second, as I've pointed out many times in the past and will continue to point out,
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the claim that we stole land from Native Americans, from some group called, quote,
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Native Americans or, quote, indigenous people, is incoherent. There never was
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any homogenous group of natives occupying this land before the settlers got here. Okay? It's not like
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the whole country was occupied by this one group that we would call Native Americans.
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There were rather disparate and warring tribes that waged wars of conquest and extermination against
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each other and had been doing so for centuries before we arrived. The ACLU says that we're on native
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land. But who's the land exactly? I mean, which natives? The ones who were most recently occupying
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the land when white people showed up? Or the ones who those natives stole it from? Or the natives who
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the natives it was stolen from stole it from? Or the natives who had it before that, etc.? I mean,
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you have to be more specific. But you can't be more specific because there is no coherent chain of
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custody for this allegedly stolen land. There was, for thousands of years rather,
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only the law of conquest, which is a law that all people lived by and died by.
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That doesn't make it right. It doesn't make it wrong. It just makes it what it is, what it was.
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It simply means that it doesn't make any sense to try and identify special victims of conquest
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because every conquered people were conquerors before they were conquered.
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So there are winners and losers in such a system. This is a distinction. You want to talk about the
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left wants nuance? Well, here it is. In a world governed by the law of conquest, which is how the
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whole world was governed for thousands of years, there are winners and losers, but it is much harder
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to identify villains and victims. You know, by the law of the land at the time, it's hard to make
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villains out of Indian tribes that, for example, massacred settlements. That's just how it worked.
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And they were on, the settlements were on land that those Indian tribes wanted or felt that they
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had a right to. But it's also hard to make villains out of the settlers who responded in kind
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to that sort of aggression. Again, it's the way the world worked. We can only be grateful that we do not
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live in times nearly as harsh or unforgiving as that. And we can and should be grateful to our
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ancestors who gave us the comfortable and luxurious lives that we lead. Modern people love to feast at
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the banquet of Western civilization while still whining about the people who provided the banquet
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and judging them for doing what they had to do in order to provide it. But you notice that none of
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these people are leaving the banquet. They're still shoving their fat, ungrateful faces.
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Third, and this is the point that I most wanted to drive home, and it is this. I am a Native American,
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okay? I am a Native American, and so are most of you in the audience. And I don't mean that in the
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Elizabeth Warren sense. I'm not claiming one one thousandth Comanche blood or whatever.
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I'm saying that I was born here, I am a citizen, and therefore I am a Native. I am a Native to this
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country, and I am an American, therefore I am a Native American. Now, that's a title that we really
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need to start using correctly. Any legal citizen born in this country is Native to it, and thus is a
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Native American. We have no trouble recognizing this when it comes to state citizenship. Now,
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if I told you that I was a Native Marylander because I was born in Maryland, nobody would
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have any problem with that. I am Native to Maryland because I was born there. And yet, somehow, we have
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this idea that I can be Native to Maryland, again, something no one would dispute, a Native
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Marylander, and yet not Native to the country that Maryland is a part of. So I can say I'm a Native
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Marylander, but I cannot say I'm a Native American. Because that title, Native to the country, is
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reserved for a very specific group of people, to a special victim group, because they were here
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originally, we're told. But they weren't. Because if you trace it back far enough, every person who has
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ever lived on this side of the world is originally from the other side of it. Nobody is Native here in
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the absolute sense. We are all descended from foreign nomads, all of us. And yet, my ancestors came here,
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just as the ancestors of those we call indigenous came here. And my ancestors fought for this land
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and conquered it, just as the so-called indigenous people had done before them. And then I was born,
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and this is my country. It is my home. It is my Native land. And I'm proud of that.
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And I apologize to no one for it. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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You don't get away with anything. And so you might think you can bend the fabric of reality and
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and watch Exodus today. All right. I want to begin with a story that
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is not one of the headlines that grabbed everybody's attention over the weekend. In fact,
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this story has grabbed comparatively few people's attention, but it's important enough that I'm
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going to mention it here. So this is the story from Fox. It says a liberal group linked to
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billionaire George Soros has been cleared by the FCC to purchase Spanish language radio stations
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throughout the country, rekindling concerns that a radical political agenda will influence
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information provided to Hispanic voters. Miami's iconic Spanish language conservative talk radio
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station Radio Mambi is one of the 18 stations the Soros-backed Latino media group will purchase from
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Televisa Univision for a reported $60 million. Radio Mambi, which is historically linked to the
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Cuban exile community and offers an anti-communism view, will be controlled by liberals once the deal
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is finalized. Latino media network, which is partially financed by an investment group affiliated
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with Soros. The Soros fund management is controlled by Jess Morales, a former Hillary for America
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and AFL-CIO employee and former Obama White House staffer as well. The FCC rejected a petition to block
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the proposed sale. And so that's the news. So why is this important? Well, I think that should be
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obvious. George Soros, who is truly one of the worst human beings to ever live on the planet, at least in
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the past, I don't know, two centuries. I put him in the top five, top 10 at least. And he has moved from
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financing the destruction of our cities with woke DAs who don't enforce the law to now buying Spanish
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language radio stations and flipping them over to make them leftist. I mean, he's still buying up the
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DAs as well. It's not like he has to choose between the two. That's the advantage of being a billionaire.
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But he's doing both and a lot more as well. The idea here is to counter the move to the right that
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we're seeing in the Hispanic community. Because the left for so long has taken the Hispanic vote for
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granted. That's why they've, in large part, why they've opened up the borders to begin with, shipped
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as many Hispanic people here as they can. That's what the great replacement is all about.
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The great replacement that Chuck Schumer admitted to a week ago. But they've hit a snag because they've
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found that Latinos are voting Republican more and more with each election. Now, the Democrats still
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get the majority of the Latino vote, but it's trending in the wrong direction for them. Because they lost
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a portion of their usual share in the 2018 midterms, then even more in the 2020 election, and then even
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more in the 2022 midterms. Again, things are trending in the wrong direction. So what do they do about it?
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Well, you cue George Soros, who's a literal comic book villain. He even looks like the bad guy in a
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cartoon or something. And his plan is to buy the votes back by taking over the information pipelines.
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That's what's happening here. And as I've established now, in case it wasn't clear,
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he is an evil son of a bitch. I mean, the world would be a better place when he dies. And I know
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we're not supposed to say that sort of thing. Well, no, no, no. The left can say that. But on the right,
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you're not allowed to ever point that out or say that. But it's just a fact. I mean, the guy's like
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92 years old. He's done immense damage to the world. And when he is no longer in the world,
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it will be better for everyone. And all of that is true. But at the same time,
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we can also recognize, I think, that this is the left playing chess while we on the right play
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checkers, right? Which is a common problem. They go on offense always. So they notice that they're
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losing the Spanish vote. So instead of just whining about it on Twitter, they go out and do this.
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They try to reclaim the information pipelines. They go to war for it. Human beings have been
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going to war for resources since time immemorial. Well, now the greatest resource is not something
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you can dig out of the ground. It's information. And as a political resource, it's the number one
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political resource. And the left is at war to control it. That's why they're so upset about
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Elon Musk taking over Twitter. They see it as a significant defeat in this battle, right,
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for to control the information, which it is. And this move by Soros, it's not going to be enough
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to neutralize the effect of what Elon Musk has done. But it's a start anyway, and that's what
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they're doing. And we need to get our heads in the game and realize that. All right. So you've heard
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about a pandemic. Well, now say hello to a triple-demic. This is from Mother Jones.
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Says, respiratory illnesses are sweeping the nation, overwhelming hospitals, causing kids to miss
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school, and keeping adults home from work. The culprit, COVID, and respiratory, well, RSV is the
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virus, and the flu. So that's all three of them. Dr. William Schaffner says, we're facing an onslaught
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of three viruses, COVID, RSV, and influenza, all simultaneously. We're calling this a triple-demic
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is the word they're using. I've also heard tri-demic used. I think I prefer tri-demic of the two.
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And it's not a term made up by Mother Jones. This is what the media is running with.
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And here's the thing. They are right that RSV is a scary virus in children. That's for sure.
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We've had more than one child who ended up in the emergency room with RSV. I've had to sit by the
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hospital bed more than once with a young child who's struggling to breathe. It is one of the
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scariest things you can experience as a parent. As far as the flu goes, again, yes, that can be
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extremely serious with kids. As I mentioned, we've had the flu go through our house this month.
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And it's, you know, all the kids had nasty coughs for two weeks. My wife is pregnant with twins,
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still hasn't completely gotten over it. But the point is that RSV and the flu have always been with
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this. Or at least they've been known about for decades. I think RSV was first identified 70 or
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80 years ago or so. And they've always been the far greater concern, especially for kids.
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There was never any reason for parents to worry about COVID with their kids. There was never any
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good reason for that. There was never any good data-backed reason for parents to be overly
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worried or even worried at all, actually, about COVID and their kids. But flu and RSV were always
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the real risks. And that's what some of us, many of us, have been saying for years now.
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But we were shut down, castigated, ignored, silenced. And now we're getting all these panicky
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stories about flu and RSV, also including COVID. Like they throw COVID into it just so that COVID
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doesn't get its feelings hurt, I guess. But we're getting these stories as though the media
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just found out that these viruses exist, even though they've always existed.
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And we continue to live our lives in spite of them, right? They're out there. We know that.
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But we live our lives because what the hell else are we supposed to do?
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You take basic precautions. You wash your hands, that kind of thing. If you're sick,
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if your child is sick, you stay home. Most people have always understood that you do that. We don't
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need the CDC to tell us. We don't need any kind of official quarantine recommendation. Is it five
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days? Is it 10 days? Is it two weeks? It's always been pretty obvious. If your kid's clearly sick,
00:25:48.880
has a fever, is coughing and all that, then you stay home if you can. But other than that,
00:25:53.900
you basically just live your life. What other option is there?
00:26:02.480
Like if we were not, COVID and RSV, especially again, when it comes to kids,
00:26:07.220
they've always been out there. We've always known about them.
00:26:11.640
And yet we continue to live our lives. Why then would we respond differently to COVID? And that's
00:26:17.840
a thing they could never explain. On CNN, they're dealing with this tridemic. And the senior
00:26:25.240
medical correspondent has some advice on how we can deal with this. Let's listen to that.
00:26:31.260
I know a lot of this has to do with the fact that people were taking such big mitigation steps over
00:26:35.640
the last several years. That's why we're seeing such a difference now. A big question people want
00:26:39.800
to know, though, is how they avoid getting sick as the flu cases are already this high and people are
00:26:45.060
gathering for the holidays. They're out and about much more than they have been in the last several
00:26:48.960
years. Right, Caitlin. So all of the advice that I'm going to give you, you have heard it before.
00:26:56.000
There is nothing new under the sun. It's very basic stuff. It's things like getting a flu shot. So
00:27:02.120
important. Washing your hands frequently. And if you want to, no one's advising you to, but if you want
00:27:07.600
to, certainly wearing a mask is going to help protect you against the flu, not to mention things like
00:27:12.980
RSV and COVID and other respiratory diseases. As you mentioned, flu hospitalizations at a high
00:27:19.740
right now for this point in the season, such an early flu season. If you look all the way to the
00:27:24.640
right, you can see a bar that represents the rate now, all the rates over the past 10 years,
00:27:29.520
way lower at this point in the season. If you want to, if you want to, you can wear a mask,
00:27:37.100
she says. And no one's advising it at this point. But if you want to, you can. At least for right now,
00:27:44.900
they're not advising you. This was always where this was going to head, is that once people stop
00:27:52.440
worrying about COVID and you're not able to, this is why they've moved on from COVID largely in the
00:27:58.440
media. It's got nothing to do with the numbers or anything like that. It's just because they
00:28:04.420
couldn't get the fear reaction out of people. Most people, the fear panic, the panic button
00:28:12.420
had been pressed too much and it was just spent and they couldn't get that reaction anymore out of
00:28:16.860
people. But they still want to keep us muzzled. So maybe you move on and say, well, wear the mask
00:28:24.860
now for the flu. Even though, again, no one ever suggested that prior to COVID. Masks existed,
00:28:37.260
medical masks existed, respiratory illnesses existed. And yet there was no push by anyone
00:28:44.420
to tell people to wear masks until COVID came along. All right, Tony Fauci officially retired,
00:28:52.840
that hasn't stopped him from doing the news circuit. He interviewed on Face the Nation over
00:28:56.700
the weekend, where among other things, he talked about the anti-China approach, as he puts it,
00:29:04.320
that the Trump administration had to the COVID virus. Fauci still has not forgiven Trump for being mean to
00:29:10.760
China when China unleashed a virus on the entire globe. And that's the thing that's most upsetting to
00:29:16.800
What happens is that if you look at the anti-China approach that clearly the Trump administration had
00:29:25.040
right from the very beginning and the accusatory nature, the Chinese are going to flinch back and
00:29:30.060
say, oh, I'm sorry, we're not going to talk to you about it, which is not correct.
00:29:34.100
But they're not talking to the Biden administration about it either.
00:29:36.720
Exactly. I think that horse is out of the barn and they're very suspicious
00:29:40.440
of anybody trying to accuse them. We need to have an open dialogue with their scientists
00:29:46.780
and our scientists, keep the politics out of it and let the scientists, because these are scientists
00:29:55.940
Yes, we wouldn't want to accuse China. We shouldn't accuse them. They simply just
00:30:00.380
created the virus. They created COVID in their Wuhan lab, created it and unleashed it on the world.
00:30:08.180
But, and that's the only question that still exists here is how exactly it ended up getting
00:30:14.840
unleashed in the world and to what extent was it intentional? That's the only question that maybe
00:30:18.640
still is still a live question, but it will never be answered because the people that would be in
00:30:23.220
charge of answering that question have no interest. So they created the virus, unleashed it on the world
00:30:28.680
one way or another, but let's not point fingers. I mean, this is a courtesy that Fauci would extend to
00:30:35.740
anyone. I'm sure if you walked up to him on the street and punched him in his lying little elvish
00:30:41.280
face, I'm sure he would say, well, let's not, let's not point fingers. Let's not accuse.
00:30:46.980
Yes, this person punched me directly in the face and is 100% to blame for doing so.
00:30:51.280
But, but can we blame them for that? Even so? Meanwhile, there are, speaking of China,
00:30:58.340
the Daily Wire has this report. Chinese citizens are protesting the communist nation's strict COVID
00:31:02.860
policies with at least one demonstration turning violent. Protests intensified over the weekend in
00:31:07.840
major cities across China, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan. According to media reports,
00:31:12.860
a demonstration in Shanghai eventually devolved into chaos with police clashing of protesters and
00:31:17.320
deploying pepper spray. The protests emerged as a response to the zero COVID policies imposed by
00:31:22.940
the Chinese Communist Party government since the beginning of the pandemic.
00:31:26.980
pandemic. And now we're seeing, apparently, and you always have to say apparently, because you can
00:31:34.180
never be, you can never be sure with anything that we, that comes out of China, any information that
00:31:38.920
we get out of China. But apparently we're seeing these widespread protests, which by the way, if you
00:31:45.820
want to protest oppression or anything like that, this, this is what takes actual courage. To be a BLM
00:31:53.400
rioter in the United States, there's no courage there. But to protest as a Chinese citizen, to
00:31:59.120
protest the Chinese government, that takes courage. More courage than the White House has, by the way,
00:32:04.060
because the White House put out this statement. I listened to this statement from the White House
00:32:06.460
about the, the, what's happening in China. This is their statement. We've said that zero COVID is not a
00:32:15.000
policy that we are pursuing here in the United States. And as we've said, we think it's going to be
00:32:19.160
very difficult for the People's Republic of China to be able to contain this virus through their
00:32:23.040
zero COVID strategy. For us, we are focused on what works. And that means using the public health
00:32:27.940
tools like continuing to enhance vaccination rates, including boosters and making testing and
00:32:33.020
treatment easily available, accessible. We've long said everyone has the right to peacefully protest
00:32:37.660
here in the United States and around the world. This includes in the PRC. It will be hard to come up
00:32:43.680
with a weaker or more pathetic statement than that. These are protests against communist tyranny
00:32:53.280
being violently put down. And we'll never know the, even the extent of that, because again,
00:33:00.260
this is coming from China. And talk about controlling the, the pipelines of information,
00:33:05.260
the Chinese communist government has almost complete control over it.
00:33:08.020
So we'll never even know the full extent of it, but they're violently putting down these protests.
00:33:15.660
And the White House's response is not even criticizing that. It's not criticizing that. It's
00:33:20.780
just, it's just criticizing the efficacy of, of zero COVID policies.
00:33:25.400
Even though they all supported those kinds of policies themselves for two years. Great. All right.
00:33:32.960
You know, the story about the shooting at the gay club in Colorado Springs has, you may have noticed
00:33:37.660
this, has already disappeared, which is interesting. As soon as the shooter's non, quote unquote,
00:33:44.920
non-binary self-identity was revealed, the story just evaporated, like floated away in a puff of smoke.
00:33:51.840
At least that's what the media would prefer. That's, that's the vanishing Houdini act that the
00:33:58.720
media is trying to pull off, but we should not let them do that. Okay. I can say that I'm not,
00:34:03.660
I'm not done with the story, which is why I want to play this clip from CNN last week.
00:34:08.880
And this is a clip of a, of a man who identifies as a woman, a quote unquote trans woman who is a friend
00:34:16.340
of one of the victims. And I want you to hear how he deals with the fact that the shooter was,
00:34:24.320
is identifies as non-binary. This is pretty amazing. Listen to this.
00:34:28.480
Natalie, when we started the show, we just got, we got a little bit of news earlier that the
00:34:34.160
attorneys for the shooter, um, are now saying that the shooter is non-binary and the shooter,
00:34:42.400
the shooter, uh, would like to use the pronouns they, them, and this is for the court in all court
00:34:49.600
papers. And that's what, um, Anderson Aldrich's attorneys are saying. Do you have any thoughts
00:34:57.020
on that? Yeah. I think that's, um, complete ludicrous. Um, I believe they're just saying that
00:35:06.520
because they want to have, um, the easy way out on this. Um, that's really, really, um, offending,
00:35:16.980
especially being a transgender woman myself, that a male, which it was obvious with the mugshot,
00:35:23.720
that's a man, that's not a non-binary person because in no way, shape or form could they appear
00:35:30.900
as a woman the next day? Um, it's really offensive to even hear that, that they're playing that role.
00:35:37.360
Um, and if they're non-binary, why would you go after the club where you feel safe at?
00:35:42.140
Why would you do that to a community where you are welcomed in if you are non-binary?
00:35:48.460
Excellent question. Obviously all of this will have to be answered.
00:35:51.680
Wow. Okay. So, uh, this person has made the judgment call that the shooter is not really
00:36:00.780
non-binary because he doesn't, because he looks like a male. And, uh, and so, so, so he,
00:36:05.920
the person on CNN is making a, a judgment about this other person's self-identity by physically
00:36:13.220
assessing them. This is just, and this is why the story went away. Um,
00:36:21.680
I mean, for the obvious reason, right? That it's not, it's the, the, the media completely
00:36:26.580
embarrassed itself. Uh, it's, uh, you know, tried to use this event to defame people like myself and
00:36:34.100
lives, a tech doc, Tucker Carlson, and then it all blew up in their faces. And now that the person
00:36:38.860
has been revealed as a, as a, you know, someone who identifies as non-binary, it's not useful to them.
00:36:44.520
Um, and so that's why they're, they're trying to put this aside. And by the way,
00:36:48.260
it's been a week now since this happened. Uh, and this, the, the claim that we got from the media
00:36:54.260
right after the non-binary wrinkle came to light was that, well, this, they're just claiming this
00:37:01.280
now. And, and, uh, clearly this is still a right wing militant person who's just claiming non-binary
00:37:07.500
status to troll or to get out of the hate crime charge, which as I explained last week, doesn't
00:37:11.780
make any sense to begin with, but we know that that isn't true. What the media is saying to try to,
00:37:19.980
you know, dismiss this because if there was any evidence, like a week later, if there was any
00:37:27.500
evidence that this person was actually a right winger who was motivated because of things that
00:37:33.920
Tucker Carlson said, or who like followed me on Twitter or something, if that was true,
00:37:39.400
if there was even a shred of evidence of any of that, we wouldn't know it by now. It's been a week.
00:37:45.500
You notice how, as far as I know, we haven't even been told, we haven't,
00:37:47.880
we haven't even been told what the shooter himself is saying. He was captured alive after all.
00:37:56.800
We've been told none of that or very little of it.
00:37:58.700
As I said last week, if, if, if a mass shooting happens and it's actually a right wing person to
00:38:09.260
commit a mass shooting, we will know everything about that person in like two hours. We'll have
00:38:14.520
every detail of their life in two hours. And if, if it goes beyond two hours, three, four, five hours,
00:38:21.960
and we've heard almost nothing. And then it's two days and we've heard almost nothing. Well,
00:38:25.040
that tells you that, uh, whatever this person's, you know, whatever the details of this person's
00:38:30.020
life, it doesn't work for the media narrative. We know that. But the other reason that they had to,
00:38:35.960
uh, just move, move on from this story is that I think they realized they were completely
00:38:44.040
exploding their own gender ideology talking points. Everything that we've heard from CNN,
00:38:51.680
I mean, that, that really is going back to that video clip for a minute. That just is an amazing
00:38:55.280
video. I mean, how, how many times have we of course been told that you can't even, when a,
00:39:03.040
when a baby is born, uh, you can't even declare their sex male or female.
00:39:10.420
You can't declare it based on, you know, anatomy. You can't declare it based on DNA or chromosomes.
00:39:20.320
Even if you have access to all that information.
00:39:24.700
And yet this person could look at a mugshot of a, of the shooter and just based on that alone,
00:39:31.380
say, oh yeah, not even, not even that he's not a woman, that he's not non-binary.
00:39:34.620
Whatever that even means to begin with. All right. I also wanted to, to, to, uh, mention this. So
00:39:43.300
Kat Tenbarge is the, uh, speaking of groomers, Kat Tenbarge is the tech and culture reporter for NBC
00:39:49.220
news. And she tweeted this, I guess this was on Thanksgiving. This is what she was thinking
00:39:55.380
about on Thanksgiving. I was with my family, but she was tweeting this. Uh, she said, Tucker Carlson
00:39:59.860
Libs of TikTok, et cetera, create a stream of content blaming trans and queer people for child
00:40:05.540
grooming, but rarely or never feature actual victims of child grooming. If they did, they'd
00:40:11.640
have to reckon with the fact that many survivors are queer and trans themselves. Huh? That's
00:40:22.080
interesting, Kat. So if they, if we reckoned with action, with the actual grooming of children,
00:40:29.860
then we would, we would realize that many of the survivors of grooming are queer and trans
00:40:35.940
themselves. Do you understand what you've just admitted to? By the way, I don't disagree with
00:40:44.800
anything she said there. Um, aside from the, you know, the, the accusation she's making against
00:40:52.640
Tucker Carlson or Libs of TikTok, aside from that, but the gist of her point, I agree with.
00:40:56.680
I totally agree with it. In fact, this is like the unspeakable. You're not allowed to even say this
00:41:02.680
out loud, even though it's true. Um, you know, to, to identify the potential link between child abuse
00:41:13.600
and then kids who identify as some version of LGBT, this is a, this is a, this is a, a link you can see
00:41:21.980
if you look at the, at the data points, but you're not allowed to point it out, but Kat just did
00:41:26.820
because she doesn't realize what she just said.
00:41:37.600
why is it that so many of the quote survivors of grooming are queer and trans?
00:41:44.840
Might that indicate that the queer and trans identities among children are a product of the
00:41:54.340
grooming? So you've got all the dots, you see all the dots now, now just connect them is all you
00:42:00.800
got to do. And then you'll see the full picture. Uh, one of the thing before we get to the comment
00:42:07.060
section because I could not neglect to gloat about this. Now you may, you may recall from my
00:42:15.360
appearance on Dr. Phil and I've, I mean, I've made this point many times, uh, or I've talked about,
00:42:21.040
Hey, if we're, if we're allowing people to have preferred pronouns and we're respecting their
00:42:26.820
preferred pronouns, then what about other grammatical constructs? I mean, what about, uh, what about a
00:42:33.060
preferred adjective? For example, as you know, my preferred adjective is handsome and brilliant.
00:42:40.520
And I said that partly as a joke on Dr. Phil, I don't know, six months ago, fast forward six months
00:42:46.640
and we have this on Tik TOK. Listen, I just had a parent ask me my preferred adjectives
00:42:54.440
because she wanted to comment on one of my photos, but she wanted to use words that I liked hearing
00:43:01.760
for myself. Uh, I got a lot of respect for the Babylon B because they, they, they have to stay
00:43:18.940
ahead of the curve on this. It's very difficult to do. And things move so quickly that something
00:43:23.940
moves from parody to reality in like the blink of an eye. And there it is. Now, now we are actually
00:43:30.940
talking about preferred adjectives because why not? It actually makes a lot of sense.
00:43:38.260
If, if I am required to affirm your self-perception, then why would that not extend to,
00:43:45.560
you know, adjectives as well? I mean, like, however I describe my, I see myself a certain way.
00:43:51.880
And if you are required to affirm, however, I see myself, then why would we not extend that
00:43:57.080
to, to, to adjectives as well? And that's what we are. Let's get to the comment section.
00:44:03.540
Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.
00:44:11.340
Old schooled says, imagine the meltdown. If there was a purity and abstinence story hour at local
00:44:17.460
libraries. Well, old school, that is a, uh, I would, if I were to put, to make a hall of fame for
00:44:25.900
your, uh, comments in the comment section, yours would, yours would be in it. Cause that is a very,
00:44:29.640
very good point. Very good and simple point that I wish I had thought to make myself. Um,
00:44:35.960
yeah. Uh, imagine that. Imagine if it was like a, rather than having, um, a, a drag queen, a man
00:44:45.420
dress up as a woman, come and read to the kids. Yes. What if it was a, a purity and abstinence,
00:44:50.140
a purity and modesty, you know, story hour where it's all, it's very modestly dressed individual,
00:45:06.580
I think you've made the point. Um, the way of the hero says, I wouldn't want a stripper to read
00:45:11.660
books to kids just as much as I wouldn't want a drag queen to do such. This isn't specifically about
00:45:15.720
drag queens. This is about keeping the barrier intact between children and adult sexuality.
00:45:22.520
Uh, right. Exactly. This is, this is why, as I've always said, I mean, and I think the right way you
00:45:27.680
say stripper, I mean, and you look at some of the footage of these drag events, family-friendly
00:45:35.080
drag events. It is basically, you know, it is not even basically like there is actual stripping going
00:45:39.760
on. But, um, I think more often it's better compared to burlesque and we wouldn't want kids
00:45:48.640
to be exposed to that. The only problem with this argument is that I think more and more the left
00:45:53.320
is going to say, and they're saying now that like, well, why not? Sure. Let's, let's, let's bring kids
00:45:58.040
to the strip club too. Why, why not? I mean, it's just, it's just sexuality. It's not scary.
00:46:04.380
And if you object and you say, no, don't bring kids to the, to the strip club, you freaks.
00:46:11.180
They'll say, well, what are you afraid of strippers for?
00:46:14.960
So I think, I think that's going to be the response is that they're sort of like going to,
00:46:19.300
going to take us up on that. Um, all right. Matthew Grove Jones says,
00:46:26.320
I don't think Matt's that much older than me, but I look to him as a father figure. I think that's
00:46:31.360
the whole meaning of the sweet baby gang. Not sure. Only been into Walshy for a few years now.
00:46:37.140
I may have missed something. Well, if you've been listening for a few years, then you should know
00:46:45.520
not to commit two sins that you've committed here, Matthew. One is to speculate about the origins of
00:46:52.720
the sweet baby gang, which you should know we do not do. And the other is to call me Walshy.
00:46:56.920
So you, if it's possible, you are banned, you're banned from the show,
00:47:02.080
readmitted, and then banned again for both of those offenses.
00:47:10.320
Sabri says, cute to see how Matt lives under the impression that his SBG does not enjoy seeing him
00:47:15.500
suffer and therefore will help him out of his anime deal. Looking forward to seeing you watch
00:47:20.440
anime soon, Matt. I am greatly disappointed that, well, I'll read some of these other comments,
00:47:24.860
but I'm, I was looking over, I did say, please recommend to me an anime that's got two or three
00:47:32.940
minute episodes and like three or four episodes in a season. And if that doesn't exist, because I'm
00:47:38.960
not going to blame the SBG for the fact that that doesn't exist if it doesn't, but if it, but if it
00:47:43.280
doesn't exist, then I need someone to make that anime. Is that so much to ask and put it up on YouTube
00:47:48.680
and then I can watch that and fulfill the terms of my deal. But no one has done that. I checked.
00:47:55.960
You had the whole Thanksgiving break to make an anime and put it on YouTube to help me out here.
00:48:02.820
Deeply disappointed. Draconic Fang says, I recommend Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood.
00:48:09.220
There are 64 episodes, around 18 minutes per. Very well done and has some strong heart-clenching
00:48:14.720
moments. 64 episodes at 18 minutes an episode? Do the math on that. I can't off the top of my head.
00:48:22.700
That's a lot of minutes. I know that much. You are not understanding the assignment here. 64 episodes.
00:48:30.080
I have to live stream this. Don't you understand? That's what, like, I have to watch the whole thing
00:48:34.640
on a live stream. Are there any better recommendations? Daniel says, Matt, watching
00:48:43.660
anime, this will be good. I hope they choose the weebiest ones. The one people seem to walk in at
00:48:49.280
the most awkward moments for. God be with you, Matt. I don't even know the weebiest. I don't know what
00:48:55.860
that means exactly, but I don't want a weeby one, okay? That doesn't sound good.
00:48:59.360
Um, JG says, Walsh is a genius. He took a sarcastic statement about anime and set it to
00:49:07.720
stir up controversy, which sells, flipped it to sell an extra 100 books, and is going to monetize
00:49:12.240
watching anime since reaction videos are huge. I'm sure he's going to make a pretty penny off of
00:49:17.360
this. Bravo, Matt. I wish I could tell you that this is all some master plan on my part. I appreciate
00:49:21.700
that assumption. Um, but, uh, I, I appreciate your, your faith that this is all a 4D chess move,
00:49:29.080
but it's really not. And if it was, again, I would not, I would have flipped it for not a hundred books,
00:49:34.000
but a thousand, 10,000. People are so desperate to see me suffer through anime that I could have
00:49:40.760
demanded 10,000 books, and I think it would have happened. Um, Vigilant the Wolf says,
00:49:49.180
the most demonic anime of all is Hetalia, but the episodes are only five minutes long.
00:49:54.420
If you last through a season, I'll be extremely impressed.
00:49:58.920
Well, there's an interesting moral quandary. So you're saying, so this is a short one,
00:50:07.040
So we know that all anime is demonic and causes demonic possession, but you're saying this is the
00:50:12.640
So do I want to do that? Or do I want to, do I want to do a longer anime? That's a little bit
00:50:19.080
less demonic. I guess that's what we have to figure out. And I need your help. Sweet baby gang.
00:50:24.600
I still am imploring for your help. Let's get to the daily cancellation.
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00:51:25.740
just as he has throughout his career, Hancock argues that there was a lost global civilization that
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existed on Earth some 12,000 years ago, but it was wiped out in a cataclysm that erased most traces
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of this civilization. He claims that our ancestors had a memory of this cataclysm, the ancient apocalypse
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in the title, which they recounted in the biblical story of the flood and in other ancient texts around
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the world. The way he puts it, he says that we are a species with amnesia. We don't know the story of
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our own past. And we accept what we've been told by mainstream science and academia, which insists
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that there were no civilizations at all, in fact, certainly not advanced ones prior to about
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4,000 BC. That's the mainstream accepted version of events. Hancock says that they're ignoring or
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even potentially covering up evidence to the contrary. And what is the evidence? Well, much of it
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centers around various ancient structures around the world that have turned out to be much older than
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they were originally thought to be. Hancock points to, for example, 1,000-year-old pyramids that,
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as it turns out, were built over top even older pyramids, which were built over older ones, like a
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kind of Russian nesting doll sort of situation. The evidence indicates that our ancestors were,
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in fact, building bigger and more complicated things earlier than previously assumed. And so Hancock is
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pointing to some of this. Also, there's the similarity between these ancient structures. Like the
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Egyptians weren't the only ones who built pyramids, obviously. Ancient people all over the world made
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their own versions of pyramids. And they were usually built to correspond with astronomical
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phenomena. Why did all these societies separated by oceans and millennia decide to build these structures?
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And how did they build them? That's an interesting question and one that has never been
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sufficiently answered. Graham Hancock's answer is that the survivors of a lost Ice Age civilization
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went around the world, passing down the knowledge of how to build these pyramids, along with teaching
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agriculture and architecture and art, etc. And that's how they figured out how to do it. Now,
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why did these survivors do this? And how did they survive the apocalypse that wiped out their
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civilization? And where were they stationed for the centuries it would have taken them to go around
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the whole world teaching these techniques to thousands of different societies? And how were they
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able to communicate with all these people speaking different languages? And why isn't there any actual
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material evidence of this advanced civilization that supposedly existed 12,000 years ago?
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Hancock says that it was wiped out in a cataclysm, but he also says that there were enough survivors
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to support this global campaign to civilize the entire world, which means that there were a lot of
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survivors. Why didn't they leave behind any direct evidence of their existence?
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These questions and many more are not answered by Graham Hancock, which is why I don't personally buy
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much of what he's selling. I am not persuaded. And yet, I very much enjoyed the series, just as I've
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enjoyed listening to him explain his ideas during his several appearances on Joe Rogan's podcast. I've
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read one of his books. I found it interesting. I think his theories are quite interesting and entertaining,
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and also outlandish, and probably dead wrong. Despite what you've been told, it is possible to have
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this opinion about someone or something. It is possible to believe that someone is wrong and yet
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still find them fascinating. It is possible to disagree with someone's ideas and yet still believe
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that the ideas are worth listening to. Say whatever else you want about Graham Hancock. He is, to use the
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cliche, an outside-the-box thinker. And I can personally always appreciate those types of people.
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We need more of those people in the world, not fewer. They make life more interesting. They make
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conversations more interesting. And they get people talking about subjects that they would otherwise
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ignore. I mean, a show about ancient archaeology is now the biggest hit on Netflix, which I think,
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as someone who enjoys history, that's worth celebrating in its own right, even if you reject his
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hypothesis completely. This is not a difficult needle to thread. Okay, it's not hard to say.
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I disagree with your ideas, but I'm glad you've shared them. At least it shouldn't be hard.
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Yet it's somehow beyond the capacity of the mainstream media, which has one word for ideas
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that fall outside of the mainstream. Well, they have a few words, but one of the most common words is,
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the word is not interesting, but rather dangerous. It's dangerous if it falls outside of the mainstream.
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Hence, many headlines published over the past few days, like this one from The Guardian, says,
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ancient apocalypse is the most dangerous show on Netflix. And then the subheader of that article
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says this, a show with a truly preposterous theory is one of the streaming giant's biggest hits.
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And it seems to exist solely for conspiracy theorists. Why has this been allowed? Wait,
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why has it been allowed? Who is supposed to disallow it? Well, the writer never explains that.
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He also never really explains what exactly makes a preposterous quote-unquote theory about ancient
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prehistory dangerous. What is the danger precisely? So a bunch of people come to believe that an advanced
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civilization existed during the last ice age, and then what? What catastrophe is supposed to follow
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from that? Other articles have taken it a step further, claiming that the show is not only dangerous,
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but racist as well. A headline from a different publication declares that there is a whole bunch
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of, quote, white supremacist nonsense behind Netflix's ancient apocalypse. Yet Hancock never says
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anything about race in the show or in his books, as far as I know. Even if you think that his
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lost civilization theory is the dumbest thing you've ever heard in your life, what in the world
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makes it racist? Well, that's never explained either. But it doesn't have to be. We already
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know that this is the media's version of Tourette's. They just reflexively blurt out the word racist
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when faced with anything they don't like. Everything they personally disapprove of is racist and
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dangerous. As for the latter charge, the best attempt at an explanation comes from the Guardian
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article I mentioned, which arrives at this conclusion at the end. It says,
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That's the danger of a show like this. It whispers to the conspiracy theorists in all of us.
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And Hancock is such a compelling host that he's bound to create a few more in his wake.
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Believing that ultra-intelligent creatures helped to build the pyramids is one thing,
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but where does it end? Believing that election fraud is real? Believing 9-11 was an inside job?
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Worse? If you were feeling particularly mean-spirited, you could suggest that Netflix
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knows this and has gone out of its way to court the conspiracy theorists.
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Ah, so there it is. If you question the narrative from mainstream archaeologists,
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the fear is that it might send you tumbling down a rabbit hole where you begin to think critically
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and skeptically about a whole host of other topics as well, like election integrity.
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This is indeed a dangerous possibility. Dangerous anyway, to the people in charge of formulating
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and disseminating the official narrative. I mean, this is really the sin that Graham Hancock has
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committed. He's pointing out holes in the official story. He's encouraging skepticism.
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Now, the theories that he formulates may have many holes of their own. I think they do,
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but that's not the issue as far as the narrative gatekeepers are concerned.
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I mean, they don't care if something is wrong. They themselves are wrong all the time. Wrongness
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is not a problem for them. The problem is when people notice how little they, the gatekeepers,
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actually know. How fragile and tentative their own theories are. How unearned and unjustified is
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their confidence. That's what makes a documentary series about ancient archaeology dangerous,
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is that it might make you a little skeptical of the gatekeepers, which I guess is dangerous. Yeah,
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but it's the right kind of dangerous. And that is why it's not Graham Hancock who's canceled today,
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but the gatekeepers trying to shame and silence him. They are all canceled. That'll do it for this
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portion of the show as we move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you